Future Plans, Staff Changes and Update Survey

Owner

The results are in.. what do you, the community, think of GlowstonePVP? The good news is, well, you'll be finding out the results, and the bad news is..

60% of users who completed the recent survey rated their past 6 months on GlowstonePVP at a 4 or under. That's terrible, astronomically terrible. We gather that this is due to a combination of:

Not enough players on Glowstone

Lack of updates and unique content to keep you engaged

The economy/players are too imbalanced

Staff, and our anti-cheat, hasn't been doing its job well enough (too many rule breakers and cheaters)

We're going to be making a lot of changes over the upcoming weeks to resolve, or at the very least improve, these issues. Our current plan is to introduce an update that focuses on fixing current imbalances in the economy/power of players, lack of engaging content, and rule enforcement. To be clear, here is what will definitely be happening:

Players and the economy will be better balanced, and become more competitive

The server will receive a big update in which the map will definitely be updated or completely changed, and gameplay will be improved

The rules, and rule enforcement will be changed to be more effective and professional - cheaters will be banned for longer periods and threats, abusive behavior, etc will not be tolerated (should be noted that it isn't tolerated at the moment either)

Updates, bug fixes, etc will remain constant - a concern of players in the survey was that the server is not updated/fixed after the release of a big update, that won't be happening

The server will grow - this is at the end of the list because we can't promise that the server will grow immensely popular in the next week or so, but we can say that we have plans to aggressively market and grow Glowstone, these plans just won't be fully put into action as soon as the content update will

Staff Changes
Between now, and when an announcement was last posted, the following staff members have resigned:

LightHQ

Reloger/CloudsPvP

Hoblitx

Swedes

It is always sad to see members leave our team, we are very appreciative of all the help and support they have given Glowstone. We wish them the best of luck in the future.

Update Survey
If you're looking to help shape Glowstone's future, please take a few minutes to fill out our Update Survey. This survey aims to gather input on GlowstonePVP's current features so that we can better plan the content update.